CM authorised to decide schedule for election to speaker’s post
The state cabinet, on Sunday, authorised Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and prominent ministers from Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress to decide the schedule for the election to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly speaker. Thackeray, with allies, will decide whether or not to conduct the election during the budget session beginning March 1. The session will conclude on March 10. The opposition had slammed the Maha Vikas Aghadi government for declaring the poll schedule, saying that it was scared about its own legislators. On the other hand, Legislative Affair Minister Anil Parab has denied the opposition’s charges and declared that the ruling alliance has the support of 170 legislators and it will be known in the voting. The election is necessitated following the resignation of incumbent Nana Patole who has been appointed as the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president. Congress legislature party leader and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat has clearly said that the speaker post will be retained by the Congress. He, thereby, has scoffed reports that NCP or Shiv Sena may stake a claim on the speaker’s post. Congress minister and veteran tribal leader KC Padvi and legislators Suresh Warpudkar, Sangram Thopte and Amin Patel are under party’s consideration for nomination in the speaker’s election.
In a new trend in cybercrime, fraudsters have started a reverse con by offering to cancel the credit cards as compared to a number tele calling companies offering a fake one to dupe the citizens. The cyber police have taken note of this new modus operandi and warned its citizens to not get tricked into sharing your privy bank details with anybody over a phone call.
A senior cyber police official said that as and when the citizens learn about their tricks, the fraudsters change and upgrade their ways to con the victims. In a novel reverse approach, the fraudsters, who have the stolen bank data from the dark web, contact the victims on the pretext of cancelling the credit card. Once the victim falls prey to the con, the caller asks to share their privy bank details.
After getting these details under the garb of 'confirmation', the victim receives a One Time Password (OTP), which the victim shares with the conman to authenticate the procedure. Soon after, the accused siphons off the money from the victim's account to the tune of thousands of rupees. Commenting on the reverse approach, the official added that since people have become well versed with the credit card orders, the fraudsters took the wrong way to get to the people.
Rashmi Karandikar, DCP (Cyber), has appealed to the people to not share your privy bank details and OTP with anybody, and definitely not over a phone call.
"Police and banks have been time and again telling people that they do not ask for any OTPs and not fall prey to such cyber frauds. If one comes across such frauds, they should immediately stop contact and approach police with a complaint, who can investigate the matter," she said.